36th Jacob's Horse

The 36th Jacob's Horse were a unit of cavalry of the British Indian Army.

John Jacob of the Bombay Artillery, as a unit of Irregular Horse, originally in 1839 (reformed 1846) to patrol the area of 'Scinde' (now Sindh province of Pakistan) and its restive frontier with Balochistan.

[1] They then served in guarding the marches of Southern Afghanistan during the First Anglo-Afghan War[2] and later under Sir Charles Napier in the annexation of Scinde/Sindh.

Like all regiments of the Indian Army, the 36th Jacob's Horse underwent many name changes in the various reorganisations.

The 2nd Scinde Horse, or Jacob's Horse (14th Prince of Wales's Own Scinde Horse) had the following principal battle honours, as a regiment of British Indian cavalry, until the Independence and Partition of India and Pakistan in 1947:[3] Meeanee, Hyderabad, Cuthchee (Scinde/Sindh campaigns); Mooltan, Goojerat, Punjaub (Punjab, Anglo-Sikh Wars); Central India; Afghanistan 1878-80; Morvai, Cambrai 1917, France and Flanders 1914–18, Megiddo, Sharon, Damascus, Palestine 1918; North West Frontier, India 1914–15, 1918.

Grave of Ranjha Khan of the 36 th Jacob's Horse, died May 21, 1917, buried at the War Cemetery Haus Spital, Münster, Germany. Haus Spital was a POW-camp for nearly 50,000 Allied Prisoners of War.